Publisher's Synopsis
Electronic commerce is a term for any type of business, or commercial transaction that involves the transfer of information across the Internet. It covers a range of different types of businesses, from consumer based retail sites, through auction, to business exchanges trading goods and services between corporations. The text Electronic Commerce Relationships focuses on the challenge at the heart of the e-business revolution: building long-term relationships of trust among buyers, sellers, and partners. First chapter describes the development of B2B e-commerce maturity application (BeMA) which involves several distinct sequential exploratory stages. Second chapter intends to find out the consumer acceptance of electronic dinar payment system based on the four original constructs of unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model. A country-level decision support framework for self-assessment of e-commerce maturity has been proposed in third chapter. Fourth chapter concentrates on the particular region and conducts a survey to analyze the consumer behavior towards mobile commerce applications. Fifth chapter addresses the identification of relevant auctions based on bidder; auctioneer and network profiles by using agent technology embedded with BDI based cognition capabilities. Sixth chapter presents the current situation in China and its readiness in e-commerce adoption. Seventh chapter focuses on internet/E-business technologies acceptance in Canada's small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs). Eighth chapter aims to explore the relationship of customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence (BI), and the causes and effects of their
